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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
As a counter example, email is a federated system too. I don't think a federated network should, or can for that matter, mimic the user friendliness of a closed system; so there won't be massive exodus of users from Twitter to the
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> When you have a couple of friends with a similar need, blnk instantly provides value, no network effect needed. So you still need a network to have value, only that you don't need a large network? You mentioned newsletter and RSS,
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I tried, and see that it does what it claims to do. For this kind of alternative social networks you need to answer this question first: If there is no network effect, which you don't have and will not have in the foreseeable future, w
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Nice. A few questions: * Is the future webhook calling cancel-able? * If I send multiple event with the same payload and same triggering time, will jiter coalesce them into one webhook calling? * if my service is temporarily offline, will j
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I am not sure which environment you referred to; I've used squeak smalltalk, and not impressed. I actually like smalltalk so I ended up using GNU smalltalk which doesn't rely on a code browser.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
You lose the ability to use a 3rd party editor, traditional source control, grep and various other small command line tools. Also god forbid if the database is corrupted during a crash or sudden power loss.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
There are 3 different kinds of email services that only have limited interoperability: * Corporate email services, aka Outlook/Exchange * Surveillance email services, aka Gmail, etc * Real email services that expose the raw email datab
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
It is hopeless to disable javascript. However, I want to have a middle ground: Disable the ability of javascript to make network calls. From privacy's perspective, it should be as good as javascript disabled. With local only javascript
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I am still doing it, on a cheap VPS no less. Yes, it is hard, and yes, some large email vendors drop my emails for no reason. However, if everyone throws in the towel, they (the monopolies) won.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
The benefit to a low level of fraud is that people are still looking out for fraud, so the society is more robust. If there was no fraud, and someone just invent fraud (it will happen), the damage could be devastating.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I read the original post but not much of the discussion. I was referring to the anecdote story at the beginning of the post. I believe even in the US, bleaching your skin has been an obsolete practice so I am not sure which point the anecdo
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I don't get it, just don't bleach your skin, was it hard to understand? Also what do you mean by people of color? The skin tone of human being is a continuous spectrum from milky pale to midnight dark and every shade in between. I
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
In China, the goal is not to win gold medal for you, but for the country. The other girl has the higher win rate against the opponent at the final, so Ye was ordered to bunt.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Some interaction are very useful, such as comments. However, I won't allow 3rd party javascript on my websites. It is a problem for static sites; So I made https://roastidio.us for exactly this situation. The idea is simple
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Share all the hard facts: who's who, capital raised, cash flow, competitive landscape, committed roadmap, etc. You can withhold future plannings to yourself unless you need inputs.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Can you explain the "playlist" idea a bit more? Is is just an aggregation of several feeds, or is there possibility to do further curation on an item by item basis? Also, is the "playlist" exported in standard RSS so peo
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
That's why you need to write your own email client, or help me to polish mine: https://github.com/derek-zhou/liv
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
RSS is still the best to get articles in a sane way. On my website https://roastidio.us I poll 4500+ feeds and counting. I have amassed 300k+ articles that are higher quality than average web pages. Of cause, the whole corpus is
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I just migrate from S3 to Backblaze and so far I am happy. I will keep this in mind. The document said: > The minimum unit of data on C2 Object Storage is 128 KB How abut files that are 129KB, will it count as 256KB? My application is a
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Interesting idea. I guess the problem is that it won't scale.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I have a script to auto-delete all attachments in emails more than one month old. I think it is the only sane way to keep emails around for long-term: There is no point to keep something unsearchable and greatly bloat up your mailbox.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Objective-C has objective because C itself is not objected oriented. Objective-Smalltalk would be redundant. How about StepTalk or SmallStep? to honor the NextStep heritage, you know.
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
I mean there are clear rules in both English and Chinese `officially`. However, Chinese is such a lax language and can convey very different meanings with just tone differences, you don't want to take the chance if there is a better wa
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
> It is ngh, low rising tone. I'm sure you can verify this online. There is no official romanization of Cantonese. Both the negative prefix `mh` and 5 are bilabial nasal, not velar nasal. They are of different tones though. Ans also
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
There are clear rules in English and Chinese. English is absolute so "yes" means I am. Chinese is an echo language so "是的" means you are correct that I am not. However, I do see Chinese making mistakes in English and Eng
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
Because there is no spacing in Chinese so there can be some ambiguity about word boundary. The more important thing is that you and I both agree that "mh" cannot be used by itself. In Chinese numbers are also prefixed to measure w
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
No, Cantonese is a prime example of "mh" being only a prefix, not a word by itself. It doesn't even have a vowel. There is no way that you answer a question with just "mh". In Mandarin Chinese the corresponding pref
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
It is different. "是的" means "That's correct"; So if someone ask me "you don't smoke?" and I answer "是的" that means I don't smoke, which is actually what "no" means in standard
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
See my blog's feed as an example on how to use enclosure: https://blog.3qin.us/feed.xml W3C has a RSS validator that you can use to validate the RSS file. I also have a blog linter that cross check the consistency betw
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by derekzhouzhen 4y ago
It is a noble effort, but you still have the same dilemma: * if only few people is using it, then the messages will be lost * if somehow this gain popularity, then the authority will ban it For a small determined group, there are already ea

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